This is a mid to advanced level course for students wishing to move their photography into new, more challenging and creative areas. It is nominally a 6-month course with six photographic assignment lessons, one per month. The course requires time and dedication to complete for the most benefit to the student.

Enroll in this course 

Street Photography Course Graduates

ABOUT THE COURSE:

Street photography is a record of everyday life in public places, with a long history dating back to the earliest photographers. It may, but does not have to include people to capture the moment. Street photography happens anywhere outside private spaces: the street, the beach, the suburban park.

Photographs can be made or taken. Every photographer decides which to choose when.

Photography is art; all artists follow their own muse, seeing the world their own way.

This course focuses on the art of seeing with a camera and arresting images in the moment, wherever in the world you are. Learning to trust your own vision in capturing life in a color or monochrome two-dimensional frame for posterity.

For students to get the most from the course, they will take 1000+ photographs over the six lessons:

1. Definition of Street Photography, Gear & Laws
2. Seeing the Street
3. People
4. Window Shopping
5. Street Portraits
6. Night
7. Walk About

Students will develop intuitive familiarity with their camera and one prime lens, capturing in seconds what they see, to share with the rest of us. Then the scene vanishes. This candid essence of street photography makes it challenging, enigmatic, and rewarding.

Street photographs are about emotion, meaning, story, history, events, metaphor, symbolism, information… Only the image in the frame matters, not how it was made or its mechanical structure, to record the tapestry of life.

There are no do-overs in street photography, no working the scene, no “you should have done this” regrets. The street photographer grabs the image, good or bad, moving on to the next, and the next.

An active street photographer, taking thousands of separate images every year, may only have a few capture their vision and style. Those few make it worthwhile for them.

This course may be frustrating and challenge the techniques and practice of photography the student is familiar with or not. Artists have those problems all the time—and golfers!

It’s your art, your photograph. Take your own pictures.